Just one day after President Barack Obama tried to sell Iran on his nuclear deal by asking them to seize a “historic opportunity,” the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, spoke at a conference where the crowd burst into a roaring chant, shouting, “Death to America!”

As the crowd grew louder and voiced their true hatred for the United States and the Western world in general, the ayatollah then said to the crowd, “Of course yes, death to America, because America is the original source of this pressure.”

As if that weren’t bad enough coming from a nation with which the Obama administration is working out a shady nuclear accord, on Monday morning, Obama’s White House dismissed the “death to America” chants by telling a CNN reporter that they were “intended for a domestic political audience.”

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Secretary of State John Kerry, who negotiated with Iranian officials for six days in Switzerland, said “substantial progress” took place, but that “important gaps” remain.

Obama essentially ignored the anti-American chants from the supreme leader of Iran, instead focusing on his destruction of America’s relationship with Israel by purposely misinterpreting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s words about the formation of a Palestinian state and accusing him of electoral posturing (H/T Breitbart).

It truly seems that the priorities of the Obama administration are straight out of Bizarro World. We’re catering to a nation known for sponsoring terrorist attacks and that once stormed our embassy in Tehran, holding Americans hostage — and to this day continues to wish death and destruction upon the United States and the Western world.

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But our greatest Middle Eastern ally, Israel, is stepped all over at every turn, as they fight to continue their survival in the most hostile region of the world.

Isn’t hearing “Death to America” from a country that we’re trying to form a nuclear deal with the least bit alarming to the Obama administration?

It sure should be.

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